Eccles says,

My work is an ongoing exploration of colour, perception, and the subtle ways the body responds to the world. I paint abstractly, allowing form to emerge from colour rather than imposing structure from the outset. For me, colour is not decorative — it is a living presence that carries sensation, memory, and emotional intelligence.

My practice is shaped by long-term engagement with Goethean colour theory, somatic awareness, and movement-based research, including Butoh. These influences have led me to develop an approach I describe as Body Sense Perception — a way of working that prioritises lived experience, attention, and felt response over analysis or representation.

Through painting, I am interested in creating spaces where viewers can slow down and encounter their own sensory and emotional responses. Rather than asking what an artwork represents, I invite a more intimate question: what does this evoke, and how does it move within me?

Ultimately, my work seeks to reawaken a deeper mode of seeing — one that reconnects perception, body, and imagination.

  • Selected Exhibitions

    2023 - Westend Artspace, Solo Show,

    West Melbourne

    2022 - YAVA Gallery, Solo Show,

    Healesville

    2022 - Abstraction, Joint Show, YAVA

    Gallery, Healesville

    2021 - Zine, Joint Show, Memo Gallery,

    Healesville

    2015 - Community Spirit, Joint Show,

    Memo Gallery, Healesville

    2014 - Open Studios, Joint Show, YAVA

    Gallery, Yarra Valley

    1997 - Fitzroy Gallery, Solo Show,

    Melbourne

    1996 - Fitzroy Gallery, Solo Show,

    Melbourne

    1995 - Fitzroy Gallery, Solo Show,

    Melbourne

    1994 - Roar Studios, Joint Show,

    Melbourne

    1993 - Curated and Exhibited, Joint

    Show, Artspace, Bendigo

    Selected Collection/Archive

    1999 - Australian National Library, Oil

    Painting, Deanne Bail

    1995 - Latrobe University, Oil Painting,

    Deanne Bail

    Education and Training

    2006 - Philosophy of Colour, Venice, Italy

    2006 - Goethes Colour Theory,

    Goetheanum

    2002-04 - Body Voice, Deiter Richter,

    Helen Sharp, John Howard

    2002-03 - Body Weather, Tess DeQuincey

    2001 - Body Weather, Min Tanaka

    1999 - Diploma of Education, Melbourne

    University

    1997-98 - Rudolf Steiner Teacher Train,

    Associate Diploma

    1993 - Bachelor of Fine Art, Latrobe

    University

    1990-93 - Ella Donald Fine Art

    Scholarship

““Art is more than an image upon a wall. It can have profound psychological and emotional affects, which we may not even be aware of.” Through the techniques I have created, with 'Body Sense Perception', my intention is to bring these affects to consciousness and allow the onlooker to have more of a relationship and sense of deep connectedness with Abstract Art.

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— Deanne Eccles